Lot 19
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Harry Houdini
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Harry Houdini

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Harry Houdini
HOUDINI, Harry The Unmasking of Robert-Houdin, New York: The Publishers Printer Co., 1906, third edition, signed by subject on the fly leaf in black ink
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In his introduction to the book, Houdini describes Robert-Houdin as ...my guide and hero...When it became necessary for me to take a stage-name...a fellow-player....told me that if I would add the letter "i" to Houdnin's name, it would mean, in the French language, "like Houdin".

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